Thursday, September 08, 2005
(8:31 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Why I am a destiny
If I were to die tonight, in a hit-and-run accident involving a police officer abusing his privileges by turning on his siren simply to run a red light -- for example -- if I were to die, and people were sifting through the butt-ends of my days and ways, I will have achieved at least one thing. I am the founding father of a new academic subdiscipline: the Philosophy of Blogging.It is only in the 21st century that blogging has become an object of sustained scholarly attention -- usually in the area of sociology. Philosophy has been done on blogs, certainly, and we can all think of the examples. But in the area of philosophy of blogging, philosophy that begins from the conviction that what is needed today is a thorough-going blogological philosophy -- in that, I have stood alone and continue to stand alone.
My furtive first gestures were in a Derridean style, but the moment of truth came when I definitively solved the problem of meta-blogging, a problem that -- not incidentally -- I myself created. By proving -- with an unsurpassed rigour -- that the number of levels of meta-blogging is one precisely insofar as it is infinite, I opened up new paths for creative research that are only beginning to be tapped as of this writing. What the combination of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, and Wittgenstein is for analog philosophy, Adam Kotsko is for the philsophy of the digital age -- the philosophy of blogging, in all senses of the genetive.
